Chevy Camaro Z/28 Takes Nurburgring – Wards: GM’s top executives lifted traditional vehicle requirements for Chevy Camaro Z/28 to take on world’s most popular track-oriented sports cars, and it delivered last year with a 7:37.40 lap of the Nurburgring to eclipse published times of the Porsche 911 Carrera S and the Lamborghini Murcielago LP640.

Dongfeng EQ2050 is Bad & Beautiful in Black – CarNewsChina.com: A bad & beautiful black Dongfeng EQ2050 Brave Soldier, Spotted in China in the Beijing Tuning Street. The EQ2050 is also known as the ‘Chinese Hummer’, which in a way it certainly is. The monster started life as a purely military vehicle but car buyers with the right connections can get one too.

Elon Musk: Take our Tesla patents, please! – Washington Post: Tesla Motors announced Thursday that it is making the patents for its technology available to potential competitors, hoping to inspire innovation in the electric car market. “Tesla will not initiate patent lawsuits against anyone who, in good faith, wants to use our technology,” Tesla founder and chief operating officer Elon Musk said in a blog post.

Spy Shots: Kia K4, the interior – CarNewsChina.com: The best spy shots so far of the interior of the upcoming Kia K4 sedan. The Kia K4 debuted as a concept on the Beijing Auto Show back in April, and debut of the production version is scheduled for the Chengdu Auto Show in September with a launch on the China car market in October.